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Belvis Pons, Esther (2012) Trans-formative theatre : living further realities. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis studies the relationship between human bodies and theatrical
events through selected European examples of the emergence of transformative ‘inbetween’
experimental performance in the early 21th century. It aims to explore the
nature of participatory practices and their attributes. How does the theatrical event
interact with the everyday and its theatricality creating ‘embodied’ experiences?
What are the attributes and the implications of the relationships that emerge
through this bodily engagement? The study questions emergent relational
parameters of the theatrical experience in order to explicate its affects and effects in
the bodies of participants, whether professional artists, skilled amateur
practitioners, theatre/performance researchers, and accidental or intentional
audiences and spectators.
Its investigation challenges the (im)possibilities of performance knowledge
through an experimental method based on a practice-as-research approach. The
introductory chapter aims to facilitate understandings of the operational conditions
through which the ‘embodied’ is materialized in theatrical performance. The
conditions, are named as ‘nomadism’, ‘net-gaming’ and ‘transductions’, and are
drawn respectively from the theories and method of Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari, Bruno Latour and John McKenzie. In unfolding these operational conditions
significant ‘ecological’, social, political, geographical concerns are identified as
critical to how the thesis accounts for key elements of current experimental
theatrical performance.
The rest of its chapters examine three productions of the international
touring companies Roger Bernat (Barcelona), Stan’s Cafe (Birmingham) and Rimini
Protokoll (Berlin). Each chapter examines different specific yet comparable aspects of their participatory theatre/performance methods – namely: expectations, time,
atmosphere, labour, and transformation – a thorough writing that is metaphorical,
analytical and performative. Metaphors evoke the ‘common’, they interlace bodily
expectations and they trigger the sense of the fleeting experience, establishing a
shared sphere between the shows, the audiences and the researcher, immersing the
reader in the theatrical events. Thus the thesis aims to present the significance of the
ungraspable in participatory experimental performance, paradoxically because only
in its evanescent in-betweeness might the ‘embodied’ be envisioned.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Theater -- Europe, Experimental theater, Participatory theater | ||||
Official Date: | March 2012 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Kershaw, Baz ; Sánchez, José A., 1963- | ||||
Sponsors: | Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona | ||||
Description: | Completed in conjunction with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres. |
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Extent: | xix, 255, [9] leaves : ill. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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